There’s a new AI bot that can predict when and how you will die

And no, it has nothing to do with which colour you like the most

If you’re having sleepless nights thinking about whether Artificial Intelligence will one day kill all the humans, you can rest easy. Because thanks to a new research in Australia, AI bots won’t even have to; they will know exactly when and how we will die. And we are not talking about computers making hard guesses about our demise based on our favourite colour or pet name. A new AI bot created by researchers in Australia can predict, to an unprecedented level of accuracy, not just the time but also the manner of a person’s death. All it needs to do so is get a few detailed images of our internal organs.

The AI was built by researchers at the University of Adelaide and uses deep learning and already existing technologies like ‘Limited Artificial Intelligence’. Their report, published recently in the journal Scientific Reports, states that among the more startling things the AI is capable of is its ability to find whether you’ll be dying anytime soon (which it does with an accuracy level of 69 per cent). For the experiment, the researchers fed the AI detailed images of the chest of 48 patients suffering from various ailments and using these the AI was able to make a large number of accurate predictions, in some cases to the tune of days.

Trumping Humanity?

The researchers built the AI in the hopes of using machine learning and analysis to understand disease patterns. However, in a rather surreal twist, they got more than what they bargained for as it turned out the AI was capable of a lot more. Through analysis of the images, the AI was capable to detected patterns of various chronic ailments – something that takes a lifetime for doctors. More impressively (or worryingly), the researchers aren’t even sure how the AI is justifying its startlingly accurate predictions. And according to them, the implications of this technology, if fed much more complex amounts of data, are far beyond current capacity.